Drug czar

Germany

The Drug Commissioner of the German Federal Government has been called the nation's drug czar by the state media company Deutsche Welle.

United States

The first US Drug czar was Harry J. Anslinger, who served as the first Commissioner of the Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics from 1930 to 1962, under the administrations of five presidents: Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. Legislative efforts for marijuana prohibition under Anslinger included a push for all states to adopt similar drug laws, the Uniform State Narcotic Drug Act and the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, which in effect criminalized the drug and set the stage for marijuana prohibition.

Nixon and Ford administrations

• Jerome Jaffe, head of the Special Office for Drug Abuse Prevention
• Myles Ambrose, head of the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE)
• Robert DuPont, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and head of the Narcotics Treatment Administration

Carter administration

• Peter Bourne, Director of the National Drug Control Policy followed by Lee I Dogoloff
• Mathea Falco, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics

Reagan administration

• Carlton Turner PhD, ScD, Director of the Drug Abuse Policy Office. Turner, while working as drug czar, was in communication with Elisaldo Carlini, a scientist in Brazil whose lab was studying the beneficial effects of CBD. Turner helped establish the Marijuana Research Project at the University of Mississippi
• D. Ian McDonald, MD. Deputy Assistant to the President, Drug Abuse Policy Office
• Vice President George H.W. Bush, who created and oversaw the Vice President's National Narcotics Border Interdiction System

1988–present

• The Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy

Trump administration

• The Chair of the Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission,In March 2017, it was announced that governor of New Jersey Chris Christie was to head the commission. (who has been described as an "opioid czar")

State and local authorities

In California, the head of the state Bureau of Medical Cannabis has been called "marijuana czar".

Following statewide medical and recreational legalization, the city of Sacramento, California appointed a director of cannabis policy and enforcement, called a pot czar.

In Washington State, the consultant to the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board determining statewide procedures and regulations following legalization was "quickly dubbed 'pot czar'". A similar cannabis regulation staff position in Oregon Liquor Control Commission was also called "marijuana czar".

United Kingdom

In the UK, Keith Hellawell, former Drugs Advisor to the Labour government of Tony Blair, has been referred to as a drug czar.

Notes

References

References

1. (4 January 2005). "Letter to Hon. John W. Olver & Hon. Henry A. Waxman, subject: ''Office of National Drug Control Policy''". U.S. Government Accountability Office.
2. (May 5, 2008). "German Youths Choose Alcohol Over Cannabis, Drug Czar Says". [[Deutsche Welle]].
3. (23 May 2020). "A Hidden Origin Story of the CBD Craze". New York Times.
4. (2021-11-26). "Chris Christie to lead Trump White House drug commission". [[The Washington Post]].
5. Tanner, Michael D.. (25 October 2017). "Do We Really Need a Drug Czar?".
6. Patrick McGreevy. (April 7, 2016). "Has she smoked weed? What will happen with recreational pot?: A conversation with California's first marijuana czar". The Los Angeles Times.
7. (October 31, 2017). "Sacramento 'Pot Czar' preparing for legalization of recreational marijuana sales". [[KXTV]] ABC 10 TV News.
8. Ben Livingston. (April 10, 2013). "Don't Call Him the "Pot Czar": Mark Kleiman Is Advising the State on How to Run a Legal Pot Industry". [[The Stranger (newspaper).
9. Anna Staver. (December 18, 2014). "Oregon's marijuana czar ready to look for answers". Statesman Journal.